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Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by underlipton »

causality0 wrote: post #120
ryukoposting wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who was exposed to 4chan at far too young of an age, I don't buy this. There's no political philisophy happening on /pol/, nor has there ever been. Granted, I avoided that board like the plague, but cursory glances never showed me any novel ideas being formulated. Even if there is real conversation of various political ideologies, it's drowned out by a sea of kids who think it's cool to say the N word onli…

It's absolutely baffling to me that despite the sheer amount of garbage, people still choose to post non-garbage content there at all. You sort through a hundred neo-nazi and race-baiting posts and then you find news that happened less than thirty seconds ago and won't be on CNN for two hours. I wish these "insiders" would find a better place share their information.

That was Twitter. Twitter was just 4chan For Everyone. But it was a company with investors and content with political ramifications, so they changed things to suit advertisers and politicians. They changed the timeline algo. And the reply algo. And the Trending algo. And they added "Verified" accounts. And then Musk bought it.

It can be made again. But whoever does it has to learn from past mistakes.

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by indrora »

donatj wrote: post #88

I thought YTMND was shutting down? Also still my favorite: https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/

The hardware it was running on was... Basic at best and the database that backed the whole thing was torched at some point. The sole guy behind it however did manage to get some of it back up and working and launched a patreon to fund it.

The whole story is over here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202658/ytmnd-return-shut...

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by donatj »

indrora wrote: post #132
donatj wrote: post #88

I thought YTMND was shutting down? Also still my favorite: https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/

The hardware it was running on was... Basic at best and the database that backed the whole thing was torched at some point. The sole guy behind it however did manage to get some of it back up and working and launched a patreon to fund it. The whole story is over here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202658/ytmnd-return-shut...

Thank you! I am so glad it’s back, it’s an absolute treasure trove

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by AlecSchueler »

slingnow wrote: post #98
AlecSchueler wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little in human history has had the reach of those websites you're talking about, and on those users tend to be in their own bubbles. On 4chan, with its millions of users over the past couple of decades, attention is centered around a few boards.

Very little? Let me introduce you to: newspapers, radio, television, books.

Which newspaper had a similar subscriber number to Facebook?

Re: Blue Ball Machine

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Post by sen_armstrong »

sen_armstrong wrote: post #91
kevindamm wrote: post #65

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I would posit that the proportion of "originated from 4chan" notes on knowyourmeme.com are an indicator of its outsized influence.

I wouldn't bet much on KYM's provenance research. Memes spread so far so fast on the information superhighway, those that started on some Korean photography forum or Russian anime newsgroup, you'd never know if you weren't there ... or know where to look. KYM often cites 4chan because it's popular, in English, and well-archived (ironic indeed) and KYM editors will take the earliest hit from the third-party archives a…

a mirror of the uncyclopedia page https://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/Onime

the livejournal stuff is also still up https://ru-onime.livejournal.com/71601.html

(2005)

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